CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

Marketing

CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. Growth potential : I underestimated the company’s capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

Valuation

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Sequoia Capital and Arrive, the venture fund of Roc Nation, the entertainment company owned by rapper Jay Z, also participated in the round of fundraising. ” Ethos uses data analytics to forecast the life expectancy of a person and boasts cutting the time to apply for life insurance from 10 weeks to 10 minutes.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. Growth potential : I underestimated the company's capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. I know that there are many on both sides of the value divide who will disagree with me on my story and valuation, and that is par for the course.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

While the gate receipts and merchandising revenues are significant, they are relatively easy to forecast, given history and ticket sales. billion pricing with an intrinsic valuation is beyond reach. billion, with current profitability, $2.7 billion, if you give them the median operating margin of an NFL team and a value of $4.5

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. I can’t imagine the present occupant of the White House is happy with that sort of inflation forecast. And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down. RITHOLTZ: Easily, right? TROPIN: Yeah. TROPIN: Yeah.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. You know, we’re more fundamental, we have the valuation, et cetera. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep. It was over 50 right?

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. Valuations go up and you saw it, of course, in the late ‘90s, in the tech sector. But you’re looking at valuations and what sort of multiples you want to pay.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that, because that gap in valuation has persisted for a long time. How durable is that shift, given how large that gap has gotten in valuation between US stocks and the rest of the developed world?

Investments

PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

That comes at a bad time for the toy industry, generally, which isn’t facing competition from other toys, but from other ways that kids now entertain themselves: iPads and apps. There is no toy business without Toys ‘R’ Us,” noted Isaac Larian, chief executive of MGA Entertainment, the company behind toy brands such as L.O.L.

Entertainment

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

David Snyderman has put together an incredible career in fixed income, alternative credit, and really just an amazing way of looking at risk and trade structure and how to figure out probabilistic potential outcomes rather than playing the usual forecasting and macro tourist game. What, what’s keeping you entertained?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We are not macro forecasters, but we are macro aware understanding what’s happening in the economy with technicals in the markets. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. But again, we’re not macro forecasters here. 00:37:26 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.

Sales

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. RITHOLTZ: Right. RIEDER: Totally.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And we’ve automated the, the appraisal process for valuation, both intrinsic value, meaning like, where would we pay it, where would we buy it, and where is the fair market price that asset from that level, from price and from consumer behavior now. Now it’s dangerous to forecast that far in the future because behavior can change.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is gonna happen. So, so given this, how do you draw a price target or a market forecast from, here’s the average of all the Wall Street strategists, let’s say it’s plus 8%. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. That’s right.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. So you can see how the forecasts are there.

Quantitative Analysis

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

So I think, you know, one of the problems I think you, you have is that the Fed Reserve does publish a forecast, the Summary of economic projections, which is the forecast of all the 19 FMC participants. But those forecasts are, you know, not particularly reliable. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days?

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

And you know, it’s the same thing when valuation gets outta control too. It will come home to roost at some point, but doesn’t mean the valuation can’t get worse. Valuations are tight, they’re tight for a reason. Remember everybody forecasted it, right? And the other thing we focus on is valuation.

Math

The Big Picture

JULY 8, 2025

And then this is the one I was saying the pillar off to the side valuation is a nice to know, but it is not a driving force of my investment process. People kind of forget that bull markets that run 10, 20 years, valuations tend to start on the lower end and they tend to end on the higher end. 00:30:06 [Speaker Changed] Ton of upside.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)